P&O Professor of Management Studies
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Mari Sako is P&O Professor of Management Studies (International Business) at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. After reading PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at the University of Oxford, she studied for her MSc in Economics at LSE, MA in Economics at the Johns Hopkins University, USA, and PhD in Economics at the University of London. She also taught at the London School of Economics, and was a visiting scholar at Kyoto University, Tokyo University, RIETI (Research Institute of the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry in Tokyo), and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
Mari has published numerous books and articles on comparative business systems and human resources. She has been, since 1993, a principal researcher of the MIT International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) which funded her research on outsourcing, modularity, and supplier parks in the global auto industry.
Since 2003, she is a Fellow of the ESRC-EPSRC Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) (www.aimresearch.org) in Britain. Her research focus is on the implications of outsourcing/offshoring of business services on business strategy and national competitiveness.